Netball

DEFENDING Inter-collegiate senior netball champions, the University of West Indies (UWI), suffered their first defeat in two years in the competition, losing 48-81 to G.C. Foster in a top-of-the-table Group A encounter at UWI on Thursday.

As a result, the St Catherine-based team - led by national player Nicole Aiken-Pinnock - remains the only unbeaten team in Inter-collegiate netball this season.

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Audra Segree and Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian will compete in South Korea

The Jamaica Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation is now making plans for the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, next month after the national women's bobsled team qualified for the Olympiad at the weekend.

This is the first time a women's team will be representing the nation at the Winter Olympics, and the feat comes 30 years after Jamaica's first overall experience at the Calgary Games in 1988.

Brakeman Carrie Russell said that qualifying for the women's bobsleigh event is one of the happiest moments of her life.

Russell, a member of Jamaica's gold medal-winning 4x100 women's relay team at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, is in her second season as a bobsledder, and said qualifying holds sentimental value for her, as it happened three years to the day her father died.

Her teammates are brakeman Audra Segree, who is another sprinter, and pilot Jazmine Fenlator-Victorian.

Florette Blackwood, Senior Director, Sport Development and Monitoring Division in the Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport (right) was on hand yesterday (Thursday) at the Norman Manley International Airport to welcome the group of seven coaches along with their team leader and translator.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — The first set of coaches being provided to Jamaica by the People's Republic of China for seven sports arrived in Kingston yesterday afternoon.

The coaches are part of a three-year technical agreement signed between the two countries last year and will be aiding in the following sports:

Speaking on behalf of the Sport Minister Olivia Grange, Permanent Secretary Denzil Thorpe told a reception held for the coaches that Jamaica intends to take full advantage of the project knowing that the athletes as well as the coaches and teachers will benefit through transfer of knowledge.

Thorpe noted that Jamaica is also grateful for the training equipment to be provided by China under the agreement.

The permanent secretary said congratulations were in order for the team that had been working with the ministry to ensure that this project of technical assistance in sport is indeed a reality.

He named the Planning Institute of Jamaica, the ministry of foreign affairs and foreign trade, the Sport Development Foundation and the GC Foster College of Sport and Physical Education.

The coaches will spend a month in Jamaica and the agreement also calls for 100 of the athletes in the programme and their local coaches to go to China mid-year.